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The N54 inline-6 turbo upgrade era is really now blossoming from stock housing options to a variety of aftermarket manifold and turbo solutions. Fftech originally worked on a bottom mount turbo manifold but it seems they have abandoned that setup in favor of a top mount turbo manifold now. This 'kit' includes everything you need to install an aftermarket turbo setup at $4950 but does not include an upgraded turbo making for a pricey manifold option.

Fftec deserves whatever the market is willing to pay and there are not exactly a plethora of top mount off the shelf manifold options in the N54 world at this time. Will it sell? Absolutely.

Why a top mount? Speculation by BimmerBoost members is that the bottom mount manifold required too much modification to the frame of the vehicle to fit. As a reminder, BimmerBoost vendors do have working bottom mount solutions for those not interested in a top mount for whatever reason (sleeper, heat in the engine bay, etc.).

I've shared my thoughts on the FFTEC pricing (and other concerns) before but I recently weighed the options and had a change of heart. At this stage in the game someone who wants to make 700rw has few options. Wait around for a less expensive kit to come to market. Go with a home-made kit. Or pony up a little extra money for a very clean setup that is 100% going to fit and perform as expected. Maybe it's 2k more than I'd like it to be but honestly it's just a drop in the bucket for most of us who are at this power level. We'll all be spending $6-10k+ on motors anyway sooner or later.

We're doing the 6466 kit on the E92 and maybe we'll throw this top mount kit on our 135i so I can compare them. CPE is also getting close with their twin turbo kit so I'll probably have to go buy another N54 for that one. I've been thinking an Xi would be fun.

I agree but lets get real here. A twin turbo setup w/ cast manifolds, etc, is going to be a very sweet setup. Vargas' setup looks nice too for a fabricated twin. But neither is really going to be comparable to the FFTEC pricing or install process. And demand for kits is only going to go up as the cars get older. I also think there is room for prices to come down on the single kits once they pick one design and push forward with it with a higher volume of cars.

I agree but lets get real here. A twin turbo setup w/ cast manifolds, etc, is going to be a very sweet setup. Vargas' setup looks nice too for a fabricated twin. But neither is really going to be comparable to the FFTEC pricing or install process. And demand for kits is only going to go up as the cars get older. I also think there is room for prices to come down on the single kits once they pick one design and push forward with it with a higher volume of cars.

It will ultimately come down to what one wants to spend as different options will cater to different price points. The install has to be factored in as well.

Regardless, it's a win for BimmerBoost as more people discuss these options and apply them.

5k for a manifold is still to much. Im ready to buy a single turbo kit shortly but 5k for a manifold and 7k for a setup is just too much. Unless this hardware is going to support 1000whp or something crazy its to much. Honestly 500-600whp for 5k would be reasonable and maybe a bit more for 600whp-700whp. We are all on the same team im not trying to devalue FFTEC's product but whoever comes out with a reasonably prices ST setup will clean house. Leave the tuners out of it the hardware is whats important. The tuners will adapt to the kits and make it work, within reason.

I've shared my thoughts on the FFTEC pricing (and other concerns) before but I recently weighed the options and had a change of heart. At this stage in the game someone who wants to make 700rw has few options. Wait around for a less expensive kit to come to market. Go with a home-made kit. Or pony up a little extra money for a very clean setup that is 100% going to fit and perform as expected. Maybe it's 2k more than I'd like it to be but honestly it's just a drop in the bucket for most of us who are at this power level. We'll all be spending $6-10k+ on motors anyway sooner or later.

We're doing the 6466 kit on the E92 and maybe we'll throw this top mount kit on our 135i so I can compare them. CPE is also getting close with their twin turbo kit so I'll probably have to go buy another N54 for that one. I've been thinking an Xi would be fun.

Fitment was not guaranteed, for 135i, send them your car have them test fit for me

and the price 4950$ from what i understand its some sort of intro pricing. after 5 kits. price is going up.

I personally do not think that price is out of bounds, 5K, spend what you wish on a turbo, install and go. After intro pricing its going to be at least $5500, still not terrible. There are a lot of options coming now, stage 3 is almost there, we are working very closely with Doc Rac now on a lot of things, we have another kit in the works with them as well. All while trying to get these damn batch 2's shipped out. Not to mention we have other surprises in the works, oh and the N55... We are not ones to sit on our hands, more options the better, I personally think that set up is not the ideal set up. But I am biased. The CPE kit looks terrible in my opinion, Looks like they are running dual GT30XX, way too big. If they dropped them down to GT28XX then they are in the ball park, I would like to see a little more evidence then "I spoke to someone at CPE and they said its almost done" Didn't they post that like 2+ years ago, and that was it? Either way on all this stuff, its just going to get better for the N54 end user, once all these options are there.